Moon into Gemini: Finding the Best Currents

Friday afternoon through Monday morning
Eastern Standard Time

Friday, November 11
Moon enters Gemini 3:10pm

peregrine falcon in flight

Moon square Mars (Virgo) 3:52pm
Moon square Chiron (Pisces) 4:27pm
Moon sextile Uranus Aries 5:07pm

Saturday, November 12
Moon inconjunct Pluto (Capricorn) 2:31am
Mars (Virgo) opposite Chiron (Pisces) 5:57am
Moon opposite Mercury (Sagittarius) 4:22pm
Moon opposite Venus (Sagittarius) 5:15pm
Mars (Virgo) inconjunct Uranus (Aries) 8:40pm
Moon conjunct the South Node (Gemini) 10:04pm

Sunday, November 13
Moon inconjunct Sun (Scorpio) 8:23am
Moon trine Saturn (Libra) 2:23pm
Moon trine Neptune (Aquarius) 10:41pm
(begin void of course)

Monday, November 14
Moon enters Cancer 2:19am
Moon square Uranus (Aries) 4:06am
Moon sextile Mars (Virgo) 5:28am

This afternoon, on the 11th day of the 11th month of this 11th year, the Moon flies on bright wings into Gemini. Having experienced the calm, steady support of the Taurus Full Moon, showing us that transformation can be experienced and nurtured as natural growth, we're ready to emerge from the chrysalis and take wing.

Gemini is ruled by Mercury, patron of merchants and patron of thieves, god of transactions of all kinds and a trickster withall. As the Moon dances through Gemini, we'll find ourselves in varied company, connecting with people and ideas we might not expect to find, and learning to look at the world from a new perspective.

This afternoon, the Moon squares both Chiron and Mars, mentor and actor. We question the sage and the soldier equally and learn from each. Then this merry prankster Moon sextiles Uranus the arch trickster, and who knows what might happen? Rabbits popping out of hats, new worlds appearing and disappearing, or anything in between.

Saturday opens with an inconjunct angle-of-adjustment between the Gemini Moon and Pluto the alchemist. What will the sorcerer's apprentice tip over today? Mars opposes Chiron today, as each searches for the best ways to serve––practical help or mystical support or both?

Gypsies II by Emilia Bayer

Meanwhile the Moon opposes first Mercury, then Venus. If these two journeyers in Sagittarius have become too set in their path, too sure they know where they're going, the Gemini Moon will shake things up, but lightly, with humor.

Saturday evening, Mars reaches an inconjunct with Uranus. Now we need to think clearly. Do we stop sweating the small stuff? Or do we remember the world lost for want of a horseshoe nail? As we work to get the details and the big picture right, the Gemini Moon makes it easier to wrap our heads around new ways of thinking.

Later, the Moon joins the South Node, reminding us the past––and our past––also has virtue. It's not all about the new; the ancestors still have messages for us.

Sunday morning, the Moon forms an edgy inconjunct with the Scorpio Sun. Lightening the mood of a Sun in Scorpio is no easy task, but this Gemini Moon might be able to pull it off, perhaps by showing how lightheartedness can flow from deep understanding and doesn't always point to an empty head.

Sunday afternoon and evening brings flowing trines between the Moon and first Saturn, then Neptune. This connection highlights our ability to manifest our dreams as the Moon connects with the planet of steady effort and then the planet of visions.

The connection with Neptune opens a void of course period that continues overnight, opening a window to a night of visionary dreams filled with messages. Very early Monday, the Moon steps into her own Cancerian castle, from whence she can meet both Uranus and Mars with safety.

While the Moon is in Gemini, we open our eyes, spread our wings and test the currents. What does the world look like today? What new things can we discover? Look! Something shines ...